Optometrist: Spec-Savers La Lucia

Job Advert Summary

We are looking for a passionate, professional, and patient-focused Optometrist to join our Spec-Savers La Lucia practice!

As a trusted healthcare professional, you will play a vital role in delivering exceptional eye care, conducting thorough eye examinations, prescribing lenses, and providing expert advice tailored to each patient’s needs. Your clinical expertise, combined with a caring and approachable manner, will help ensure that every patient receives the highest standard of service and leaves with an excellent experience.

If you are dedicated to improving lives through quality eye care, thrive in a collaborative team environment, and enjoy building long-term patient relationships, we would love to hear from you!

Minimum Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• Degree in Optometry and valid registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) – certified copies will be required.

Related Experience

• Minimum of 12 months working experience as an Optometrist.

• Computer literacy with knowledge of optical software systems.

Special Training & Competencies

• Strong focus on customer service and patient satisfaction.

• High level of attention to detail and accuracy.

• Ability to take ownership and make sound decisions.

• Excellent people management and communication skills.

• Commitment to maintaining professional optometry standards as specified by Spec-Savers.

Flexibility

• Perform other functions/duties as required to ensure smooth operations.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Care of Equipment

• Maintain all optometry equipment fully functional, in “new-looking” condition, and immaculately clean at all times.

2. Patient Consultations

• Conduct eye exams, advise patients, and ensure all relevant tests are explained before confirming prescriptions.

• Minimum examination: non-contact tonometry, central visual field screening, case history (reason for visit, last check, medication, problems), retinoscopy, subjective exam with phoropter, near vision test, binocular balance test, ocular muscle balance test, ophthalmoscopy, slitlamp bio-microscopy.

• This is the minimum standard of care; optometrists may perform additional tests.

3. Contact Lens Fittings

• Fit hard and soft contact lenses, order trial lenses, track back orders, and maintain stock (preferably Aquity).

4. Frame Selection & Prescriptions

• Assist patients in selecting frames suited to prescriptions.

5. Laboratory/Supplier Dealings

• Communicate efficiently and courteously with labs/suppliers; report issues to store owner.

• Complete lab orders and redo jobs, check Vertometer readings, verify pricing, and ensure lab credits are received.

6. Dispensing & Follow-Up

• Ensure spectacles/lenses meet prescriptions, adjust for comfort, and reinforce expected benefits.

• Handle patient queries and conduct 7-day follow-up calls for all collections.

7. PPN Requirements

• Capture all required PPN information: IOPs, VAs, Visual Fields.

8. Flexibility & Additional Duties

• May perform other tasks including: filing cards, signing for deliveries, stock entry, answering phones (after 3 rings), customer take-on, invoicing, follow-up calls (Recalls, No Shows, Cyclic), stock take, quotations, day-to-day repairs/adjustments, and reporting all system error messages immediately.

9. Updating Knowledge

• Maintain up-to-date professional optometry knowledge.

10. Attendance

• Keep attendance register updated daily.